Set within Sheffield’s former Effingham Street gasworks, Fluid Lives represents an exploration of the possibilities of an unmaintained world: an eventuality circa 2050; where botany, design, and architecture meet outside of the technical frame of sustainability and the comfortable setting of the bucolic. Delving into concepts of spontaneous nature, the thesis aims to capture the unexpected and unplanned manifestations of nature that emerge within urban settings.

The design encompasses a brownfield site and transforms the contaminated land into a biodiverse wetland habitat; offering lodge retreats, event and education spaces, and laboratories that aid extensions of the existing ecosystems and ecologies along the River Don and Canal.